Issue 4/2019
Content (67 Articles)
Challenges and opportunities for nuclear cardiology
Marcelo F. Di Carli
A quick glance at selected topics in this issue
Pradeep Bhambhvani, Fadi G. Hage, Ami E. Iskandrian
Cardiovascular disease in the literature: A selection of recent original research papers
Fadi G. Hage, Wael AlJaroudi
Nuclear cardiology in the literature: A selection of recent, original research papers
Saurabh Malhotra
What is This Image? 2019: Image 2
What is this image? 2019: Image 1 result
Estephany Abou-Jokh Casas, Virginia Pubul Núñez, María del Carmen Pombo Pasin, Charigan Abou-Jokh Casas, Maria Amparo Martínez, Anxo Martínez, Álvaro Ruibal Morell
18F-sodium fluoride positron emission tomography assessed microcalcifications in culprit and non-culprit human carotid plaques
H. Hop, S. A. de Boer, M. Reijrink, P. W. Kamphuisen, M. H. de Borst, R. A. Pol, C. J. Zeebregts, J. L. Hillebrands, R. H. J. A. Slart, H. H. Boersma, J. Doorduin, D. J. Mulder
Fluoride imaging of atherosclerotic plaques: Moving from macro to microcalcifications?
Fabien Hyafil, Warda Ferrag, Chahinez Kefti, Dominique Le Guludec
Early therapeutic effects of adaptive servo-ventilation on cardiac sympathetic nervous function in patients with heart failure evaluated using a combination of 11C-HED PET and 123I-MIBG SPECT
Yusuke Tokuda, Mamoru Sakakibara, Keiichiro Yoshinaga, Shiro Yamada, Kiwamu Kamiya, Naoya Asakawa, Takashi Yoshitani, Keiji Noguchi, Osamu Manabe, Nagara Tamaki, Hiroyuki Tsutsui
Coronary risk equivalence of diabetes assessed by SPECT-MPI
Donna Chelle V. Morales, Sanjeev P. Bhavnani, Alan W. Ahlberg, Raja C. Pullatt, Deborah M. Katten, Donna M. Polk, Gary V. Heller
Refining risk in diabetes and CAD with SPECT MPI: New insights and future challenges
Syed Y. Naqvi, Steven D. Wittlin, Ronald G. Schwartz
Assessment of attenuation correction for myocardial PET imaging using combined PET/MRI
Martin Lyngby Lassen, Sazan Rasul, Dietrich Beitzke, Marie-Elisabeth Stelzmüller, Jacobo Cal-Gonzalez, Marcus Hacker, Thomas Beyer
Artifact-free quantitative cardiovascular PET/MR imaging: An impossible dream?
Habib Zaidi, Rene Nkoulou
Is there a role for cardiac positron emission tomography in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?
Paco E. Bravo
Cases from a busy nuclear cardiology laboratory
Jeremy S. White, Ami E. Iskandrian, Fadi G. Hage
Added prognostic value of left ventricular shape by gated SPECT imaging in patients with suspected coronary artery disease and normal myocardial perfusion
Valeria Gaudieri, Carmela Nappi, Wanda Acampa, Emilia Zampella, Roberta Assante, Teresa Mannarino, Andrea Genova, Giovanni De Simini, Michele Klain, Guido Germano, Mario Petretta, Alberto Cuocolo
Potential effects of low-dose average CT on cardiac implantable electronic devices
Emily Y. Pan, Dershan Luo, Tinsu Pan
Development of an inflammation imaging tracer, 111In-DOTA-DAPTA, targeting chemokine receptor CCR5 and preliminary evaluation in an ApoE−/− atherosclerosis mouse model
Lihui Wei, Julia Petryk, Chantal Gaudet, Maryam Kamkar, Wei Gan, Yin Duan, Terrence D. Ruddy
Chemokine receptors: Key for molecular imaging of inflammation in atherosclerosis
Yongjian Liu, Pamela K. Woodard
Iodine-123-metaiodobenzylguanidine cardiac SPECT imaging in the qualification of heart failure patients for ICD implantation
Anna Teresińska
Role of cardiac 123I-mIBG imaging in predicting arrhythmic events in stable chronic heart failure patients with an ICD
Giuseppe De Vincentis, Viviana Frantellizzi, Francesco Fedele, Alessio Farcomeni, Paola Scarparo, Nicolò Salvi, Danilo Alunni Fegatelli, Massimo Mancone, Derk O. Verschure, Hein J. Verberne
18F-FDG PET/CT-imaging of left ventricular assist device infection: a retrospective quantitative intrapatient analysis
Philipp Kanapinn, Wolfgang Burchert, Hermann Körperich, Jan Körfer
FDG-PET for the detection of infection in left ventricle assist device: Is there light at the end of the tunnel?
Fabien Hyafil, François Rouzet, Khadija Benali
Refer Wisely™: Leveraging social media to promote interdisciplinary collaboration on the use of cardiac testing
David E. Winchester, David Wolinsky
Relationships between electrical and mechanical dyssynchrony in patients with left bundle branch block and healthy controls
Saara Sillanmäki, Jukka A. Lipponen, Mika P. Tarvainen, Tiina Laitinen, Marja Hedman, Antti Hedman, Antti Kivelä, Hanna Hämäläinen, Tomi Laitinen
A troubled marriage: When electrical and mechanical dyssynchrony don’t go along
Marat Fudim, Salvador Borges-Neto
Comparison of two software systems for quantification of myocardial blood flow in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Hulya Yalcin, Ines Valenta, Min Zhao, Abdel Tahari, Dai-Yin Lu, Takahiro Higuchi, Fatih Yalcin, Nagehan Kucukler, Yalda Soleimanifard, Yun Zhou, Martin G. Pomper, Theodore P. Abraham, Ben Tsui, Martin A. Lodge, Thomas H. Schindler, M. Roselle Abraham
Correction to: Comparison of two software systems for quantification of myocardial blood flow in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Hulya Yalcin, Ines Valenta, Min Zhao, Abdel Tahari, Dai-Yin Lu, Takahiro Higuchi, Fatih Yalcin, Nagehan Kucukler, Yalda Soleimanifard, Yun Zhou, Martin G. Pomper, Theodore P. Abraham, Ben Tsui, Martin A. Lodge, Thomas H. Schindler, M. Roselle Abraham
Lost in quantification…: The influence of different software packages on flow quantification measures
C. Rischpler, S. G. Nekolla
Arterial inflammation in young patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection: A cross-sectional study using F-18 FDG PET/CT
Ismaheel O. Lawal, Alfred O. Ankrah, Gbenga O. Popoola, Thabo Lengana, Mike M. Sathekge
Could FDG-PET imaging play a role in the detection of progressing atherosclerosis in HIV-infected patients?
Nidaa Mikail, Mathieu Sinigaglia, Fabien Hyafil
Diagnostic value of stress thallium-201/rest technetium-99m-sestamibi sequential dual isotope high-speed myocardial perfusion imaging for the detection of haemodynamically relevant coronary artery stenosis
Gilles Barone-Rochette, Feras Zoreka, Loïc Djaileb, Nicolas Piliero, Alex Calizzano, Jean Louis Quesada, Alexis Broisat, Laurent Riou, Jacques Machecourt, Daniel Fagret, Gerald Vanzetto, Catherine Ghezzi
Dual isotope stress Tl-201 and rest Tc-99m CZT SPECT: Are we truly leveraging CZT technology?
Saurabh Malhotra, Rami Doukky
Testing our tests: Do clinical studies of diagnostic performance truly inform patient management?
Prem Soman, Matthew E. Harinstein
Comparison of maximal Rubidium-82 activities for myocardial blood flow quantification between digital and conventional PET systems
Joris D. van Dijk, Pieter L. Jager, Jochen A. C. van Osch, Maryam Khodaverdi, Jorn A. van Dalen
Dynamic cardiac PET imaging: Technological improvements advancing future cardiac health
Grant T. Gullberg, Uttam M. Shrestha, Youngho Seo
Impact of renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system polymorphisms on myocardial perfusion: Correlations with myocardial single photon emission computed tomography-derived parameters
George Angelidis, Maria Samara, Maria Papathanassiou, Maria Satra, Varvara Valotassiou, Ioannis Tsougos, Dimitrios Psimadas, Chara Tzavara, Sotiria Alexiou, John Koutsikos, Nikolaos Demakopoulos, Gregory Giamouzis, Filippos Triposkiadis, John Skoularigis, Panagoula Kollia, Panagiotis Georgoulias
Do we need diagnostic strategies enhanced with genetic information for ischemic heart disease?
Pierre-Yves Marie, Sophie Visvikis-Siest
Compared vulnerabilities to small cardiac motions between different cameras used for myocardial perfusion imaging
Julien Salvadori, Yolande Petegnief, Remi Sabbah, Olivier Morel, Hatem Boulahdour, Gilles Karcher, Pierre-Yves Marie, Laetitia Imbert
Rotating and stationary SPECT system patient motion myocardial perfusion artifacts
Kenneth J. Nichols, Andrew Van Tosh
Imaging doxorubicin and polymer-drug conjugates of doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity with bispecific anti-myosin-anti-DTPA antibody and Tc-99m-labeled polymers
Rajiv Panwar, Prashant Bhattarai, Vishwesh Patil, Keyur Gada, Stan Majewski, Ban An Khaw
Detection of chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity with antimyosin pretargeted imaging
H. William Strauss, Giuliano Mariani
Coronary vascular age: An alternate means for predicting stress-induced myocardial ischemia in patients with suspected coronary artery disease
Carmela Nappi, Valeria Gaudieri, Wanda Acampa, Parthiban Arumugam, Roberta Assante, Emilia Zampella, Teresa Mannarino, Ciro Gabriele Mainolfi, Massimo Imbriaco, Mario Petretta, Alberto Cuocolo
LNT RIP: It is time to bury the linear no threshold hypothesis
Christopher L. Hansen, Rittu Hingorani
Ischemic heart disease in Latin American women current perspective and call to action
Amalia Peix, Diana Paez
Suboptimal performance of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging for the assessment of myocardial viability at the early phase of an acute coronary syndrome: Usefulness of SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging
Loïc Djaileb, Adrien Jankowski, Marjorie Canu, Alex Calizzano, Laurent Riou, Alexis Broisat, Daniel Fagret, Catherine Ghezzi, Gerald Vanzetto, Gilles Barone-Rochette
Multimodality assessment of ventricular pseudoaneurysm after non-reperfused acute myocardial infarction
Erick Alexanderson-Rosas, Oscar Mondaca-Garcia, Hector Zambrano-Guatibonza, Alondra Flores-Garcia, Isabel Carvajal-Juarez, Nilda Espinola-Zavaleta
Early infected aneurysm with 18F-FDG uptake prior to substantial anatomical changes
Mami Morimoto, Takashi Norikane, Yuka Yamamoto, Katsuya Mitamura, Yoshihiro Nishiyama
Poor tracking of myocardial walls and inaccurate estimation of systolic parameters in myocardial hypertrophy on gated myocardial perfusion SPECT resulted from erroneous placement of region of interest and contouring: A pitfall of commercially available software packages for cardiac analysis
Mohsen Qutbi, Yaser Shiravand, Mehdi Soltanshahi, Isa Neshandar Asli, Abdolhamid Bagheri
Can 99mTc-labeled RBC-equilibrium radionuclide angiocardiography be an adjunct imaging biomarker for marrow hyperplasia in beta-thalassemia major patients?
Shelvin Kumar Vadi, Sonia Kashyap, Ashwani Sood, Alka Khadwal, Madan Parmar, Ashwin Singh Parihar, Bhagwant Rai Mittal
Ramp filter artifact associated with filtered backprojection, resolved with iterative reconstruction
E. Gordon DePuey
ACC/AATS/AHA/ASE/ASNC/HRS/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR/STS 2019 Appropriate Use Criteria for Multimodality Imaging in the Assessment of Cardiac Structure and Function in Nonvalvular Heart Disease
John U. Doherty, Smadar Kort, Roxana Mehran, Paul Schoenhagen, Prem Soman, Gregory J. Dehmer, John U. Doherty, Paul Schoenhagen, Thomas M. Bashore, Nicole M. Bhave, Dennis A. Calnon, Blase Carabello, John Conte, Timm Dickfeld, Daniel Edmundowicz, Victor A. Ferrari, Michael E. Hall, Brian Ghoshhajra, Praveen Mehrotra, Tasneem Z. Naqvi, T. Brett Reece, Randall C. Starling, Molly Szerlip, Wendy S. Tzou, John B. Wong, John U. Doherty, Gregory J. Dehmer, Steven R. Bailey, Nicole M. Bhave, Alan S. Brown, Stacie L. Daugherty, Larry S. Dean, Milind Y. Desai, Claire S. Duvernoy, Linda D. Gillam, Robert C. Hendel, Christopher M. Kramer, Bruce D. Lindsay, Warren J. Manning, Manesh R. Patel, Ritu Sachdeva, L. Samuel Wann, David E. Winchester, Michael J. Wolk
Recommendations for 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography imaging for diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis—2018 update: Japanese Society of Nuclear Cardiology recommendations
Shinichiro Kumita, Keiichiro Yoshinaga, Masao Miyagawa, Mitsuru Momose, Keisuke Kiso, Tokuo Kasai, Masanao Naya
How do we establish cardiac sympathetic nervous system imaging with 123I-mIBG in clinical practice? Perspectives and lessons from Japan and the US
Mark I. Travin, Ichiro Matsunari, Gregory S. Thomas, Kenichi Nakajima, Keiichiro Yoshinaga
Abstracts of Original Contributions ASNC2019 The 24th Annual Scientific Session of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
ASNC’s global impact: Transforming nuclear cardiology and making the world smaller
Rob Beanlands